Thursday, 13 February 2014

Fashion In India

Fashion is something which signifies the latest trends, funky outfits, accessories, make up, hair styles and lots more. Though now-a-days it’s more about Lbds, kittens and pumps, from gaudy shades to blingy outfits, but this is not something which was always followed in India.

Indian clothing is renowned throughout the world, for its ethnic wears, perfectly depicting the richness of the cultural heritage.

Fashion in India stands for those ultimate traditional glam outfits always worn by women in India when it comes about looking most elegant, dignifying yet sexy.

Yes! It’s about those beautifully embroidered lehengas, those salwar and kurtis with blingy dupattas matched with delicate piece of jewellery in colours like gold, silver, red, copper, etc.
Though modifications and experiments with styling are adopted time-to-time, such as heavy ‘gota work’ on western fairytale gowns turning them into a masterpiece, ‘low waist sari’ , backless trendy knotted blouses etc.

A Fashion designer has to be creative. They have to express their designs in sketches. They need not be an excellent artists but should be capable of combining tones, shades and colours. Dress designers need to have good imagination and an ability to think in three-dimension to translate into fashion what they can contemplate. A fashion designer has to be fashion savvy and have the knowledge and experience of elementary tailoring skills and techniques and be able to distinguish among various kinds of fabrics. Good designers are always original, experimental and inventive in designing custom made outfits and designer dresses. Designers are always experimenting with new design styles every season.

It was back in 1980s, when the first generation of Indian fashion designers started cropping up, including Satya Paul. Though, the "Anarkali-style" has been around ever since, it was first popularized after Mughal-e-Azam.
Indian Fashion-based programmes on the electronic media are frequent. Indian fashion competing with the best in the world and have won worldwide praise.